The Ontario Building Code | Crawl Spaces as Warm Air Plenums

9.18.7.1. Crawl Spaces as Warm Air Plenums

(1) Only crawl spaces under 1-storey portions of dwelling units shall be used as warm air plenums.

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(3) Combustible ground cover used as enclosing material in Sentence (2) shall be covered with noncombustiblematerial.

(4) Noncombustible material described in Sentence (3) shall,

(a) extend not less than 300 mm beyond the projection of a register opening, and

(b) have turned-up edges.

Section 9.19. Roof Spaces

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